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Trivia
- Celtic top the table with a maximum 12 points after 6 matches played, Rangers are 2 points adrift in 2nd place.
- The Glasgow Herald reports a British victory in Mesopotamia where at Ramadie, General Maude's forces captured a large number of Turks, also reported in the same newspaper are details of our Naval aircraft bombing Beirut. LINK
- The weekly war casualty list in the Herald gives figures of 124 Officers and 3,218 Men.
- Mr John Hodge the Pensions Minister visiting the Cowen Traing School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors at Newcastle was greeted by cheers when he announced he was seeking £10,000 from the treasury for the provision of an experimental factory to produce artificial limbs.
- Page 6 of the Glasgow Herald advertised shows in Glasgow and on at The Coliseum is Chung Ling Soo a wonderful Chinese Magician who wasn't Chinese and later came to a tragic end.
Review
Teams
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN:
W. Black, M. Keirnan, Nellies, Sharp, J. Barnes, Ross, Sinclair, J. McTavish, Drummond, Miller, F. Gibson
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Livingstone, McMaster, Cringan, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl , Browning, McLean
Scorer: McLean
Referee:
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald – Oct 1, 1917
CELTIC WIN NARROWLY.
A record crowd – for the match – saw Heart of Mid-Lothian lose narrowly to Celtic at Tynecastle, and here too play was unnecessarily vigorous at times. Nellies and Ross found places in the home team, Cringan and McMaster on the other side, and the newcomers strengthened what have been palpably weak spots in both elevens. An accident to Gallagher crippled the Parkhead attack for a time, but it was always a dangerous quantity, though it was close to the interval when McLean scored what proved to be the only goal of the game.
The Hearts strove hard to save the game if possible, and would have done so but for the sterling defence of McMaster, Cringan, and Livingston. The last-named player combined the coolness of McNair and the fearlessness of Dodds, and he may have frequent opportunities of displaying these qualities in future, as the international left full back received such injuries in a match recently as may keep him out of the game for a considerable time.